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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2008-0414 json

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to trick the user into uploading arbitrary…

published 2008-02-08 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-0424

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to trick the user into uploading arbitrary files via label tags that shift focus to a file input field, aka "focus spoofing."

Patch / fix

  • seamonkey RHEL 2.1 1.0.9-0.14.el2
  • seamonkey RHEL 3 1.0.9-0.16.el3
  • seamonkey RHEL 4 1.0.9-15.el4
  • seamonkey-nss RHEL 2.1 1.0.9-0.14.el2
  • seamonkey-nss RHEL 3 1.0.9-0.16.el3
  • seamonkey-chat RHEL 2.1 1.0.9-0.14.el2
  • seamonkey-chat RHEL 3 1.0.9-0.16.el3
  • seamonkey-chat RHEL 4 1.0.9-15.el4

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0208

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 92.0-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-0414 updated

mozilla: multiple file input focus stealing vulnerabilities

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.16.el3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.14.el2, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.16.el3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 seamonkey 1.0.9-15.el4, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-15.el4, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-15.el4, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-15.el4, seamonkey-dom-inspector 1.0.9-15.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 seamonkey 1.0.9-15.el4, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-15.el4, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-15.el4, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-15.el4, seamonkey-dom-inspector 1.0.9-15.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.14.el2, +1 more
    +6 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.16.el3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 seamonkey 1.0.9-15.el4, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-15.el4, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-15.el4, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-15.el4, seamonkey-dom-inspector 1.0.9-15.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.14.el2, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.16.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.16.el3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 seamonkey 1.0.9-15.el4, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-15.el4, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-15.el4, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-15.el4, seamonkey-dom-inspector 1.0.9-15.el4 Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.14.el2, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.14.el2, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0208

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Exploit prediction

2.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.